I'm already wetting my pants: First Look the Essential Atlas

Why is life so cruel to a person who is so true During the deepest and darkest nights While I lay in a fear of flight
I know I was at my best once But now I know I never will return For now I know I will be cruel
-DuWayne Cleveland

There are some disputes on images, such as how I feel the Tenel Ka image does not represent her post-DJ, but all in all it's great and mostly original.
It also has the best image of Darth Caedus to date.

We have a new Tenel Ka image?!

"So this is how liberty dies...with thunderous applause." -Padme Amidala

It's like a more realistic version of the most recent cover we've gotten of him.

This is some of the best art we've seen yet- each guide lately is getting better and better. There are some disputes on images, such as how I feel the
Tenel Ka image does not represent her post-DJ, but all in all it's great and mostly original. It also has the best image of Darth Caedus to date.

X wants me to mention that the maps are awesome.

There are pages for many planets, and a species section, as well as history lessons by era.

Maps in the Atlas:
The Galaxy (generic dateless)
The Core
The Colonies
Galactic Population c. 25 ABY
The Inner Rim
The Expansion Region
The Mid Rim
Hutt Space
The Outer Rim
Client States and Miscellaneous Regions
The Rakata Empire c. 30,000-25,200 BBY
The Conquests of Xim the Despot 25,127-25,096 BBY
The Pre-Republic Galaxy c. 25,100 BBY
Origins of the Jedi (and other mystic traditions of the young Republic) c. 25,000-22,000 BBY
Galactic Explorations (basically a pre-Naboo timeline of such, most colorful map in the Atlas)
The Sith Empire c. 5,000 BBY
The Great Hyperspace War c. 5,000 BBY
The Great Sith War 4,000-3,996 BBY
The Jedi Civil War 3,959-3.956 BBY
The Mandalorian Wars 3,976-3,960 BBY
The Fall of the Republic 1,004-1,000 BBY
The Hapes Cluster
The Hydian Way c. 3,693 BBY
Sidious's Preparations 52-32 BBY
The Phantom Menace
The Fate of Outbound Flight
Tatooine, Geonosis and the Arkanis Sector
Attack of the Clones
The Clone Wars (2 maps)
Kashyyyk and Neighbors
Revenge of the Sith
Imperial Atrocities
The Adventures of Han Solo 14-0 BBY
The Centrality
The Corporate Sector
Missions Merciful and Otherwise 2-0 BBY
The Ultimate Power in the Universe 22 BBY-12 ABY
A New Hope
Yavin and the Gordian Reach
Famous Shadowports
Flashpoints in the Galactic Civil War 2 BBY-4 ABY
The Road to Kessel
The Spice Trade
Hoth and the Greater Javin
The Empire Strikes Back
Endor and the Moddell Sector
Inner Zuma Region (Side View)
Return of the Jedi
The Ssi-Ruuk and Nagai Invasions
The New Republic Advances 4-6 ABY
The Road to Coruscant 6-7 ABY
The Hunt for Zsinj 7-8 ABY
Campaigns After Zsinj's Death 8 ABY
Thrawn's Campaigns 9 ABY

STOP STOP STOP. I refuse to read any more about all of these beautiful things I cannot have for like another.... four months!

"Shadowports were spaceports used by smugglers, ship thieves and other criminally linked spacers. Quite often, shadowports were hidden to provide
protection from authorities, with their locations only known to reputable spacers.

Notable shadowports were located on Kothlis and somewhere in the Tapani Sector. Booster Terrik's Errant Venture was probably one of the better-known
shadowports."

Jaina realized with a cold shudder that Jacen had not failed. He had sacrificed everything-his name, his family, his reputation, his life- to unite the
galaxy. And now here Jaina was, watching the birth of a galaxywide league of worlds dedicated to working together in peace. Had Jacen won after all?

Pictures from the Atlas are below. FYI, they might have some flaws
due to my scanner but you can certainly still see them well, lol.

Anakin Solo:

Ben Skywalker:

Boba Fett:

Cade Skywalker:

Darth Caedus (best picture of him yet!):

Cha Niathal:

Corran Horn:

Darth Krayt:

Ganner Rhysode:

Jacen Solo:

Jaina Solo:

Luke Skywalker:

Lumiya:

Mara Jade:

Roan Fel:

Tenel Ka - here you go Zinnos :

In the cockpit of his StealthX heading for Hapes, Luke Skywalker felt a hand brush his hair, and as he reached out
involuntarily to touch it, he knew his world had ended.~ Luke Skywalker's reaction upon realizing his wife Mara had died

Sweet pics Mizz!! Don't know how much I like the pic of Cade, he almost looks too old. Is that cleavage on Jaina? Ben's hair looks reddish brown to me,
so not too bad. Luke looks badass, but I thought Sue said they couldn't use Mark Hamill's likeness because to me that looks alot like how Mark looks
now. Darth Krayt looks amazing. Ganner kind of looks like Jonathan Barrowman to me, so if he ever gets tired of Torchwood... Tenel Ka looks like the chick from
the Resident Evil movies and Kirsten Dunst had a child. Overall though I'm really impressed by the artwork

Why is life so cruel to a person who is so true During the deepest and darkest nights While I lay in a fear of flight
I know I was at my best once But now I know I never will return For now I know I will be cruel
-DuWayne Cleveland

Some good pictures there, although I have a a nagging feeling with several of them that they look very much like RL people (actors), especially with Roan Fel
and Tenel Ka, but I just can't name the RL persons. Except that Cade looks like current Mickey Rourke, which is apt.

Best picture of Jacen as a Dud Sith, but his other picture is a kind of mediocre and Anakin's is not bad, but not anything that we wouldn't have seen
before either; Jaina's is among the best pictures of Jaina.

Beninho looks vaguely similar to his picture in the coming cover, but otherwise has little similarity with his earlier depictions, or with Luke or Mara, and
even when I try to put against my negative views of the character aside I still can't but say that he looks bad, arrogant and effeminate, and really like
he would be a member of those awful Jonah Brothers. Not like a hero, but a hero's uppity friend before he has learned a valuable lesson in life from the
hero.

Tenel Ka looks like the chick from the Resident Evil movies and Kirsten Dunst had a child.

I love how Corran Horn is now played by Sawyer from LOST.

Though her outfit seems more YJK,

Hey, she's wearing the exact same ensemble on Tempest.

and even when I try to put against my negative views of the character aside I still can't but say that he looks bad, arrogant and effeminate, and
really like he would be a member of those awful Jonah Brothers.

And a very sarcastic thank you for now ruining this drawing for me for all eternity. I hope you're happy, because I'm not. He's
friggen 16, would you rather he looked like someone from Coldplay or U2?